error message when running htdig

I have been running htdig 3.1.6 on a Sun Solaris machine for several years and everything was going well. Recently, when I run the rundig script, I get the following error:

 

Assertion failed: l && buffer[l -1] == 'n', file Retriever.cc, line 79
Abort

 

No crawling or indexing gets done.

Does anyone have an idea what this means?

 

Thanks for any help.

 

 

 

Malka Cymbalista
Webmaster, Weizmann Institute of Science
malki.cymbalistaweizmann.ac.il
08-934-3036

Hello,

 

Please search your htdig.conf for the line containing text

 

url_log: somefile

 

Then look for the file mentioned in this line and try to remove it (but make a backup copy before). Then rerun the rundig script.

 

Denis Morozov.
 

On 4/11/07, Malka Cymbalista < Malki.Cymbalistaweizmann.ac.il">Malki.Cymbalistaweizmann.ac.il> wrote:

I have been running htdig 3.1.6 on a Sun Solaris machine for several years and everything was going well. Recently, when I run the rundig script, I get the following error:

 

Assertion failed: l && buffer[l -1] == 'n';, file Retriever.cc, line 79
Abort

 

No crawling or indexing gets done.

Does anyone have an idea what this means?

 

Thanks for any help.

&nbsp;

&nbsp;

&nbsp;

Malka Cymbalista
Webmaster, Weizmann Institute of Science
weizmann.ac.il" target="_blank">malki.cymbalistaweizmann.ac.il
08-934-3036

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Thanks for the answer. There is no line

url_log: somefile

in my htdig.conf file. ; The logfiles are set in the rundig script.&nbsp; I created a new logs directory and ran rundig again and got the same results.

 

Malka Cymbalista
Webmaster, Weizmann Institute of Science
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>>> On 4/11/2007 at 6:01 PM, in message <3d87abaf0704110801m59557ae9xfafdf9d675dd8435mail.gmail.com>, "Denis Morozov" <dmorozovgmail.com&gt; wrote:wrote on
>
> Hello,
>;
> Please search your htdig.conf for the line containing text
>
> url_log: somefile
&gt;
> Then look for the file mentioned in this line and try to remove it (but
> make a backup copy before). Then rerun the rundig script.
&gt;
> Denis Morozov.
&gt; 
> On 4/11/07, Malka Cymbalista <Malki.Cymbalistaweizmann.ac.il> wrote:
> I have been running htdig 3.1.6 on a Sun Solaris machine for several
> years and everything was going well. Recently, when I run the rundig
> script, I get the following error:
>;
> Assertion failed: l && buffer[l -1] == 'n', file Retriever.cc, line 79
> Abort
>
> No crawling or indexing gets done.
> Does anyone have an idea what this means?
>;
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
>
> Malka Cymbalista
> Webmaster, Weizmann Institute of Science
&gt; malki.cymbalistaweizmann.ac.il
> 08-934-3036
>
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Thanks very much for your reply.&nbsp; I erased db.log from the db directory and this did indeed solve the problem.&nbsp; Thanks very much for your help.

&nbsp;

Malka Cymbalista
Webmaster, Weizmann Institute of Science
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>>> On 4/13/2007 at 11:23 PM, in message <8D4A69EA-852E-44A2-B623-7ADE15F10EB9yggdrasill.net>, Jim Cole <listsyggdrasill.net> wrote:wrote on
>
> The error message you are seeing does indicate a problem with your 
> url log file. If you do not have a url_log entry in your config file, ;
> then htdig would fall back to the default value. That should result&nbsp;
> in a file named db.log in your database directory. This assumes you 
> have not changed database_base, as the default is actually $
> {database_base}.log. You will need to remove this file in order to 
> resolve the problem you are encountering.
>
> Jim
>
> On Apr 11, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Malka Cymbalista wrote:
>;
>> Thanks for the answer. There is no line
>&gt; url_log: somefile
&gt;> in my htdig.conf file. ; The logfiles are set in the rundig script.&nbsp; 
>> I created a new logs directory and ran rundig again and got the 
>> same results.
&gt;>
>;> Malka Cymbalista
>> Webmaster, Weizmann Institute of Science
&gt;> malki.cymbalistaweizmann.ac.il
>&gt; 08-934-3036
>>
>> >>&gt; On 4/11/2007 at 6:01 PM, in message&nbsp;
>> <3d87abaf0704110801m59557ae9xfafdf9d675dd8435mail.gmail.com>,&nbsp;
>> "Denis Morozov" <dmorozovgmail.com&gt; wrote:wrote on
>>; >
>&gt; > Hello,
>;> >
>&gt; > Please search your htdig.conf for the line containing text
>&gt; >
>&gt; > url_log: somefile
&gt;> >
>&gt; > Then look for the file mentioned in this line and try to remove&nbsp;
>> it (but
>&gt; > make a backup copy before). Then rerun the rundig script.
&gt;> >
>&gt; > Denis Morozov.
&gt;> >
>&gt; > On 4/11/07, Malka Cymbalista <Malki.Cymbalistaweizmann.ac.il>&nbsp;
>> wrote:
>;> > I have been running htdig 3.1.6 on a Sun Solaris machine for several
&gt;> > years and everything was going well. Recently, when I run the rundig
>;> > script, I get the following error:
>;> >
>&gt; > Assertion failed: l && buffer[l -1] == 'n', file Retriever.cc, 
>> line 79
>>; > Abort
>>
>
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